Lyndhurst Grove

We have just submitted an application for the extensive renovation of an 1840’s terraced house in Peckham together with new lime mortar washed brickwork additions to the rear. More soon.

Prospect House

We have just submitted a planning application for 2 timber clad additions to this grade 2 listed house in County Durham. More soon.

Windmill Road

The proposal is for three, multi-storey buildings arranged between Windmill Road and Thornhill Road in an informal, dense arrangement intended to promote a sense of ownership for the residents and an appropriate urban character given its location. Fronting Windmill Road a new 3-storey terraced building will contain a healthcare facility at ground foor with 2 foors of 1 bed, 2 person flats above accessed from a shared landing. The ground foor will be accessed via a covered entrance or ‘porte-cochere’ that also leads toward the 2, 4-storey blocks behind. Situated to the rear 2 matching 4 storey blocks conceived as large houses will be set around areas of private amenity space. These 2 blocks will contain 2 pairs of 2 bed 4 person flats at each foor with both stair and lift access, throughout the scheme generous landings will be provided to promote interaction between residents.

All 3 new buildings will be formed using full height loadbearing brickwork panels with expressed brickwork external reveals. Each building will have its own tone and type of brick as a compositional device and at each floor edge pre-fabricated concrete consoles will be tonally matched to the adjacent brickwork, creating the impression of a stacked construction.

The scheme has now been submitted to LB Croydon for their consideration.

Johnstone Terrace

Sometimes the length of time to complete a project can prove to be fortuitous. Our clients had lived in the property for some years but were keen to have the house refurbished and improved without removing its essential character, the house being situated within an estate of Victorian railway workers dwellings in North London designated as a conservation area.

Existing UPVC windows were replaced with bespoke timber sashes and casements to echo the original patterns and a new stable door was added leading into an enclosed court yard. Materials were selected that were both robust and appropriate including reclaimed York stone flags, brickwork and timber flooring; a bespoke kitchen combining traditional cabinetry detailing with classic post-war Scandinavian fittings was installed over the original encaustic tiled floor to the ground floor rooms.

An existing characterful box stair was renovated and a roof light was fitted to provide natural light. The timber floor in the master bedroom was carefully relaid and a shelving unit was designed to display a collection of classic Penguin paperbacks, together with a freestanding wardrobe.

The project though modest in scale demonstrates a strand of our practice which allows for a more curated approach to domestic interior space that responds and acknowledges the setting of the project.

Craigleith View

Inspired by 'House No.47' designed in 1929 by Sigurd Lewerentz we are proposing renovations for a family home in Edinburgh. More soon.

Whiteley Road

A new build townhouse in London. Currently in planning the proposal will reuse existing material from the demolition of an unused garage and boundary walls to create a contemporary 3 bedroom home for our client.

Responding to the awkward geometry of the site the house will be comprised of interconnecting rooms accessed via a hall and top lit stair.

A lower ground floor will accommodate guest, garden and utility rooms with a light well to the front and courtyard to rear.

Upper floors will contain family and living rooms with bedrooms at the top of the house

A flat roof will be used for off-grid energy generation and an expressed chimney makes explicit reference to the fundamental nature of the property.

Sevenoaks

Our proposal for the new Sevenoaks Nature and Wellbeing Centre was a family of permeable structures to connect the two lakes and greater site by providing a formal, protected route through the landscape commencing using the device of the colonnade with an entrance building to the south and finishing with a café and exhibition rooms at the lake’s edge to the north.

This collection of structures would allow both visitors and staff to engage with the sites unique post-industrial setting and its wildlife in a direct yet measured manner in keeping with the aspirations of the trust and scale of the setting.

A language of rough cast concrete vertical and horizontal pre-fabricated external elements with cement board cladding would be used to form the external walls with the slender section of the columns referring to the woodland of the site typified by large, vertical stands of birch, willow, and alder trees in a predominantly a flat setting whilst exposed internal timber beams would make reference to traditional agricultural structures and add character to the large, simply planned public rooms which were designed to be easily altered and allow for the projected increase in visitor numbers.

RIBA International Competition in collaboration with Price & Myers

Ruskin Road

A 1930's chalet style bungalow in Surrey is being refurbished to create a new home for our clients. When completed a new dining room and kitchen will face a mature garden that overlooks an historic graveyard contained within substantial and sculptural brick additions

Additional rooms for entertaining and work will be formed within the existing footprint of the house and a new master bedroom suite will be accessed from a bespoke stair linking the public ground floor and private first.

South Croxted Road

A house on the Dulwich Estate in London has been refurbished to create a family home. In response to the setting terrazzo flooring, bespoke joinery and a restricted colour palette have been used to provide a robust backdrop to daily life.

Grange Road

An Edwardian villa in West London has been extended to provide a room for the preparation of food. Responding to the setting the addition utilises reclaimed stock brick to create robust generously scaled accommodation. An oak parquet floor extends from the house into the new room creating an explicit connection between old and new.

Taptonville Road

Despite its apparent size the house needed a new room in which to entertain. Designed for a professional couple and their family a new kitchen, dining room and scullery have been added to a large semi-detached stone built villa. Larch cladding panels were painted to compliment the soot stained grit stone elevations against which the new dining room sits.

Minerva Street

A house with two courtyards. In East London we created a new terrace and garden to provide a creative couple with sorely needed external space in which to relax. In another courtyard bounded on 4 sides by high walls an additional childs bedroom has been inserted.

Fitzroy Gardens

A 1962 end of terrace house in Crystal Palace was extensively refurbished to provide improved accommodation for our clients and their young family. Houses of this period offered contemporary living that were seen as aspirational but over time and due to unsympathetic alterations their inherent character has often been eroded.

Our proposal addresses the inherently vertical character of the house, with the ground and first floor windows being treated as a two storey bay with a more private arrangement above.

To the street the arrangement of the elevations have been retained as originally intended but renovated throughout.

The project was published in the Financial Times.

Gowlett Road

The client asked us to modernise her kitchen and provide her with a better dining room and garden room from where she could work.

Given the modest scale of the commission attention was given to bespoke joinery and good quality components. A low wall designed to bookend the sink and drainer also provides a moment of sociability being at a height which allows a family member to stand and talk.

Since their completion the rooms have also been used as a private gallery.

Pollyanna

A commission to propose a means of proving guest accommodation for the owner of a leading fashion showroom in Yorkshire.

Ranmoor Hall

Situated in an historic garden setting, proposals were developed for a scheme that comprised 3 large villa forms in response to the context. More soon.

Willow Way

Commissioned by SEE3 Portas Pilot and The Sydenham Society proposals were developed for an unused site in Lewisham.

Initial studies with a group of MA students from Kingston University were developed into a report that offered a number of ideas about how this under valued and neglected backland site could be better used to bring tangible benefits to the community.

A mix of housing, workspace and creche facilities were developed with a clear, urban scale and density and presented to local stakeholders and residents at a number of public events.

The resulting document was subsequently used to generate a discussion about the long term development of this part of Lewisham.

Fragments

Since 2008 Andrew Budd has been a tutor at Kingston University, specialising in construction and making. As part of these activities students have made a number of full size artefacts that are intended to communicate ideas about the materials of their projects.

These fragments are both compelling in their direct application of technique and process and also the ambition of the students who made them.

Our own clients have also found them to be inspirational and they have, on a number of occasions been used to discuss ideas about texture and materiality.

Live Projects

Since 2010 Andrew Budd has completed a series of live projects, working with small groups of post-graduate architecture students at Kingston University.

These projects have been developed in conjunction with a number of clients including The Hannah Barry and Stanley Picker Galleries, Eco-Build, and Kingston University and invariably involved the construction of an inhabitable space.

Built as full size artefacts the projects have explored a number of themes including the use of standard, humble building materials and pre-fabricated construction.

Hannah Barry Gallery

EcoBuild

Graduate Fashion Week

Competitions

Over a number of years we have made entries for architectural competitions. These are used as research opportunities, allowing us to make larger scale proposals or test ideas about materials or techniques of representation we are interested in.

In the course of these submissions we have been fortunate to have been placed on a number of occasions including overall 3rd place in the Sheffield Festival Centre RIBA Competition. More soon.